Undergraduate - CourseHonours degree of Bachelor of Medical Science

Students who commenced study in 2015 should refer to this course entry for direction on the requirements; to check which units are currently available for enrolment, refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course.

This course entry applies to students commencing this course in 2015 and should be read in conjunction with information provided in the 'Faculty information' section of this Handbook by the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.

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Description

This course provides students with an opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of an aspect of medical science and to pursue the study of this field through research. Students will undertake research activities supervised through a department of the faculty and complete a minor thesis.

Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that graduates will be able to:

describe the ethical requirements for research activities in human, public health and biomedical science research

describe various methodologies in human, public health and biomedical science research

discuss an aspect, issue or problem within a human, public health or biomedical science research field

retrieve, interpretate and evaluate information in medical and other research based publications

design, frame, conduct and report on a small-scale project in human, public health or biomedical science research.

Entry requirements

Students may take leave from their course to pursue special studies in a discipline area offered by the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences in order to qualify for the Honours degree of Bachelor of Medical Science, provided they have:

successfully completed at least the first two years of the Monash undergraduate-entry Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery

successfully completed the first year of the graduate-entry Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery

graduated from a Monash University Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery

in all cases have achieved a credit average.

Students who are studying or have completed a medicine program at a university other than Monash must have completed studies with a credit average corresponding to a minimum of two years of the Monash undergraduate MBBS program in a medicine program with equivalent curriculum content, learning outcomes and academic standards as determined by the faculty.